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Folklore and urban legends, paranormal activity, and the bleeding edge of science collide at Stranger Dimensions. Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:51:00 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1StrangerDimensionshttps://feedburner.google.comGoogle Maps Anomalies: Pyramids (Or An Alien Base?) In Antarcticahttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StrangerDimensions/~3/UZIWCxZG3ZM/
http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2016/12/06/google-maps-anomalies-pyramids-antarctica/#commentsTue, 06 Dec 2016 11:59:31 +0000http://www.strangerdimensions.com/?p=22821In 1946-1947, Admiral Richard E. Byrd, of Hollow Earth fame, spearheaded Operation Highjump, a military training exercise in Antarctica. Many have since claimed that this was actually a cover-up for an alleged mission to destroy the last of the NAZIs. They had, according to the conspiracy, been hiding in an invisible fortification somewhere on the ...

]]>In 1946-1947, Admiral Richard E. Byrd, of Hollow Earth fame, spearheaded Operation Highjump, a military training exercise in Antarctica. Many have since claimed that this was actually a cover-up for an alleged mission to destroy the last of the NAZIs.

They had, according to the conspiracy, been hiding in an invisible fortification somewhere on the snowy continent.

Some pictures go along with that story, though we can’t be entirely sure what to make them. One, however, includes something that looks very much like a pyramid, which is interesting, given a new claim that’s popped up in the news recently.

Antarctic Mysteries

Hop on over to Google Maps and you’ll see the alleged pyramid everyone is talking about, located at the coordinates 79°58’39.2″S 81°57’32.2″W. Three other “pyramids” surround it.

According to The Daily Mail, conspiracy theorists claim this pyramid may actually be home to a UFO base. What’s more, they claim U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent visit to Antarctica wasn’t an opportunity to discuss climate change as reported, but rather a clandestine visit to said alien base.

They suggest Kerry made the trip simply because his time as Secretary of State is coming to an end and he’s curious to discover the truth about extraterrestrials on Earth.

Well, who wouldn’t be?

Whether or not the pyramid located on Google Maps is related to the one Kerry is alleged to have visited, however, is unclear.

Ancient Pyramids, Or Natural Formations?

Ancient Origins, meanwhile, explores a different possibility: That these structures may actually be remnants of an ancient pyramid-building civilization, perhaps one related to the lost city of Atlantis. They may have been constructed back in a time before Antarctica was covered in ice.

Skeptics, on the other hand, suggest these alleged pyramids are completely natural things called nunataks. These are simply areas of a mountain (in this case, what may be a mountain peak) that rise up from glaciers and remain uncovered by ice.

Now, if you ask me, that’s an unfortunately mundane explanation. But can you ever really be sure?

Going back to the images taken during Operation Highjump, note the photo of what appears to be another pyramid-like structure with a circle around it. A natural formation, or something more?

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http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2016/12/03/yuki-onna-snow-ghost-japan/#respondSat, 03 Dec 2016 07:58:54 +0000http://www.strangerdimensions.com/?p=22776In Japanese folklore, supernatural entities and phenomena are known as yōkai, and they come in many different shapes and sizes, good and bad. Some are monsters, some are demons. Others are shapeshifters, ghosts, or various inexplicable manifestations. You know, the sorts of things we often cover here. They’re all unique in their own strange ways, but ...

]]>In Japanese folklore, supernatural entities and phenomena are known as yōkai, and they come in many different shapes and sizes, good and bad. Some are monsters, some are demons. Others are shapeshifters, ghosts, or various inexplicable manifestations.

You know, the sorts of things we often cover here.

They’re all unique in their own strange ways, but given that we’re approaching winter, I thought we’d take a brief look at one of the coolest of these yōkai: Yuki-onna.

The Snow Woman

Often portrayed as a vengeful spirit who appears during terrible snowstorms, Yuki-onna, the Snow Woman, is also sometimes known as the Snow Hag, though this clashes with her usual description – that of a beautiful, ethereal woman with pale skin and haunting eyes.

According to Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, an online collection of translated Japanese legends and ghost stories curated by Zack Davisson, the first documented Yuki-onna tale appeared in Japan during the Muromachi period, when the Japanese poet and Zen monk Sōgi shared his own alleged experience with the frosty yōkai.

As Sōgi wrote, the mysterious Yuki-onna appeared to him one day as an extraordinarily pale, beautiful woman, wearing an equally pale kimono, just outside of his home in Echigo. She was standing near a bamboo thicket.

She also stood nearly ten feet tall.

Sōgi, mesmerized by the sight of this strange woman, called out to her. But she ignored him, and instead walked silently toward his vegetable garden. Then, just as quickly as she had appeared, she dissolved into the cold and snowy air. He never saw her again.

Don’t Get Lost

In most stories, like the one above, the Yuki-onna appears tall and pale, and cold as ice. However, she doesn’t always appear quite so serene.

Instead, or so the legend goes, she often materializes during heavy snowfall, and her icy breath can freeze humans instantly. But that’s not the worst of it – she’s said to occasionally give lost travelers a final, chilling kiss before feasting upon their mortal souls, or inhaling their life force.

The most classic variation of the legend, however, contains an intriguing twist. Written by Lafcadio Hearn in his collection Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, published in 1903 (and later adapted to film in 1964), it shows that, perhaps, the Yuki-onna sometimes has a bit of a human side, despite being as vengeful as ever.

In another, perhaps more down-to-earth telling, the Snow Woman appears not as a vengeful spirit, but as one with unfinished business. Once a mortal woman who died during a fierce snowstorm, she returns to haunt her husband until he agrees to take care of her father. In the end, let’s just say, no one ever wins an argument with a ghost.

Is there any truth to these stories of the Yuki-onna? They date back hundreds of years – perhaps even into ancient times – so who’s to say? I’ll just leave you with some advice that’s probably good whether yōkai exist or not: Don’t get lost in Japanese mountains during a snowstorm.

]]>http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2016/12/03/yuki-onna-snow-ghost-japan/feed/0http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2016/12/03/yuki-onna-snow-ghost-japan/Adobe’s VoCo Lets You Put Words In Your Audio Recording’s Mouthhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StrangerDimensions/~3/gzsx6PZeSzE/
http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2016/11/28/adobes-voco-lets-you-put-words-in-your-audio-recordings-mouth/#commentsMon, 28 Nov 2016 21:40:30 +0000http://www.strangerdimensions.com/?p=22767How much do you trust what you see? How about what you hear? Several months ago, I posted about Face2Face, a program that allows for the manipulation of video in real time to change and animate facial expressions. It’s an interesting technology, but also concerning – all you have to do is watch this video ...

Several months ago, I posted about Face2Face, a program that allows for the manipulation of video in real time to change and animate facial expressions. It’s an interesting technology, but also concerning – all you have to do is watch this video to see how it might be used in the wrong hands.

Well, today we have something new and exciting to fuel the fires of conspiracy.

According to Engadget, this month Adobe unveiled their experimental Project VoCo tool, which allows users to insert dialogue into preexisting voiceover recordings simply by typing in the words or phrases you want to hear. The new dialogue will sound more or less just like the original voice.

The software does this by analyzing the sound of the original voice (about 20 minutes worth of audio will do), then synthesizing the new words to match.

In the above video, you can watch Adobe’s new tech in action, in this case using an audio sample of Keegan-Michael Key. It’s not perfect, but the real magic begins at around 4:20, when the presenter shows off the ability to add small phrases.

As usual, the first question to arrive with such a technology is: Can it be used for evil? The answer, of course, is yes. But Adobe is also apparently researching ways to detect audio forgeries, through things like watermarks.

That said, like any software, you can imagine that other variations will pop up in the future without said watermarks. The technology is here, one way or the other.

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http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2016/11/23/ufo-sighted-colorado-evidence-possible-alien-base/#respondThu, 24 Nov 2016 05:55:49 +0000http://www.strangerdimensions.com/?p=22755MUFON report #80568 tells the curious tale of a UFO that appeared on a Winter Park, Colorado ski resort webcam this week. The report was submitted on the day of the sighting, November 22, 2016, along with two images. According to the witness, the live webcam takes frames once every three minutes. The object appeared ...

]]>MUFON report #80568 tells the curious tale of a UFO that appeared on a Winter Park, Colorado ski resort webcam this week. The report was submitted on the day of the sighting, November 22, 2016, along with two images.

According to the witness, the live webcam takes frames once every three minutes. The object appeared in only a single frame at 8:30 a.m.

The scene was described as follows:

“In one frame, there was nothing but the normal view. Next frame, black disk-like object appears just over mountain top. Next frame, nothing.”

The witness said the object appeared too close to the mountain to be a drone or a plane, and he or she later confirmed with the ski resort that no helicopters had been in the area that morning. “Given the distance/size of object,” the witness wrote, “it is unlikely that it was a bird, bug, etc.” They’ve used this webcam for several years to monitor weather conditions, and nothing similar has appeared on it before.

Alien bases are, after all, said to exist throughout Earth, underwater, and perhaps even on the moon. Even the alleged phantom island Hy-Brasil is believed by some to be an alien headquarters that uses cloaking technology to become invisible. The truth, as always, is out there. Somewhere.

]]>http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2016/11/23/ufo-sighted-colorado-evidence-possible-alien-base/feed/0http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2016/11/23/ufo-sighted-colorado-evidence-possible-alien-base/Haunting Phenomena: When the Walls Bleedhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StrangerDimensions/~3/AmHfxskebv4/
http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2016/11/11/haunting-phenomena-walls-bleed/#commentsFri, 11 Nov 2016 20:30:24 +0000http://www.strangerdimensions.com/?p=22742What would you say is the worst symptom of a haunted house? Flickering lights? Moving objects? A spooky ghost? How about when the walls begin to bleed? It’s at that point, myself, I’d probably consider moving. Now, you may think bleeding walls are a bit too out there, something that exists only in fiction. 1979’s ...

]]>What would you say is the worst symptom of a haunted house? Flickering lights? Moving objects? A spooky ghost? How about when the walls begin to bleed? It’s at that point, myself, I’d probably consider moving.

Now, you may think bleeding walls are a bit too out there, something that exists only in fiction. 1979’s The Amityville Horror, for example, features such a phenomenon, but even that movie embellished the allegedly “real” events to make things more dramatic. In the actual account from 1975, the walls reportedly oozed a green goo, not blood.

However, as with most ventures into the strange and unusual, you’d be surprised at what you find. If these stories are to be believed, bleeding walls do exist. And some of them are completely confirmed, though perhaps not paranormal in nature.

Oozing from the Other Side

Let’s be honest, though: the paranormal is what we’re here for. Look and you shall find tales of bleeding buildings associated with paranormal activity. Buildings like:

The Tallmann House

In the case of the haunted Tallmann House, residents of an ordinary home in Horicon, Wisconsin found themselves the victims of a very strange thing indeed: a haunted bunk bed. According to Cult of Weird, in 1988, this family suffered through nine months of intense paranormal activity after purchasing a used bunk bed, including spectral apparitions. They ultimately fled their home, but not before rumors of even stranger things – including bleeding walls – spread throughout their neighborhood.

Maryknoll Seminary

Since knocked down, legend has it the Maryknoll Seminary in Illinois was once haunted by the spirit of a monk. According to The Shadowlands, he hung himself in the bell tower. After his death, along with unexplained noises, there were reports of fresh blood oozing down the tower’s exterior.

The House on Brownsville Road

The San Pedro Haunting

A family in San Pedro, California experienced what they believed to be a particularly violent poltergeist. Physical attacks, and even an attempted hanging, are just two of the more extreme phenomena they suffered back in the late 1980s. Head over to Above Top Secret for a rather thorough breakdown of what happened, as well as some images of the “mysterious red ooze” that seemed to drip down from their cupboards and other places. It was later reportedly confirmed to be human blood plasma.

Horror at the Winston House

Perhaps the strangest incident involving bleeding walls occurred at the Winston House, also in the late 1980s (it was a time for bleeding walls, I guess).

It told the story of William and Minnie Winston, aged 79 and 77 respectively, who contacted police after discovering blood throughout their home. According to the Register-Guard, they “reported finding blood on the floors and walls of the house they [had] rented for 22 years. Lab tests…confirmed it was human blood.”

However, it was type O blood. The Winstons were type A.

Millie Winston made first contact with the mysterious pools of blood after stepping out of her bathtub on September 8, 1987. After investigating, police would later find blood in “the bathroom, kitchen, living room, bedroom, and halls.” Nearly everywhere. And yet no explanation for its existence could be found.

Macabre Matters

These cases are all interesting, but the truth is, paranormal or not, having anything ooze out of your wall is troubling, to say the least.

Sometimes, a mysterious goo has an ordinary explanation: surfactant leaching. This happens when humidity causes paint ingredients to drip down your wall. Fairly normal. But other times, the cause is far more grisly. Say, a decomposing body.

As the Daily News reported in 2015, an Oklahoma man discovered his kitchen wall bleeding, much to his dismay. When police arrived to investigate, they discovered the terrible truth: his upstairs neighbor had died of natural causes, hit their head, and their blood had oozed down to the apartment below.

]]>http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2016/11/11/haunting-phenomena-walls-bleed/feed/1http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2016/11/11/haunting-phenomena-walls-bleed/Are These Hieroglyphs Proof of Real Time Travel?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StrangerDimensions/~3/mcQaVY3yvm4/
http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2016/10/15/hieroglyphs-proof-real-time-travel/#commentsSat, 15 Oct 2016 07:27:31 +0000http://www.strangerdimensions.com/?p=22710Venture into the ancient temple of Seti I in Abydos, Egypt, constructed around 3,000 years ago, and you’ll find hieroglyphs upon its walls that some believe may prove the existence of time travel — or perhaps even ancient aliens. According to the above video, and a recent article over at Express, the hieroglyphs on display resemble aircraft, tanks, and submarines ...

]]>Venture into the ancient temple of Seti I in Abydos, Egypt, constructed around 3,000 years ago, and you’ll find hieroglyphs upon its walls that some believe may prove the existence of time travel — or perhaps even ancient aliens.

I’ll tell you: What we’re looking at here is clearly the handywork of yet another meddling time traveler, who’s more interested in destroying the universe than taking even the most basic of temporal travel precautions. In other words, someone ripped a hole in spacetime and showed the ancient Egyptians a few of our toys.

At the very least, as far as I can tell, no cell phones have appeared in these ancient hieroglyphs. But give it time.

Ancient astronaut theorists, on the other hand, have a different idea. They suggest that the Egyptians were instead visited by an alien civilization, and designs resembling the aliens’ wondrous technologies were incorporated into the hieroglyphs we see today.

Perhaps it’s a mixture of both scenarios. But, as usual, not everyone is convinced.

Egyptologists claim the appearance of these hieroglyphs, specifically the ones that look like modern-day helicopters, are nothing more than pareidolia. According to Wikipedia, they’re “the result of carved stone being re-used over time,” with the erosion of the plaster leaving multiple inscriptions “partially visible and creating a palimpsest-like effect of overlapping hieroglyphs.”

In fact, the original inscription of the Helicopter hieroglyphs apparently reads, “He who repulses the nine,” while the newer inscription translates to, “He who protects Egypt and overthrows foreign countries.”

Of course, this explanation is exactly what you’d expect from those trying to cover up the obvious. We’re on to you, time travelers!

]]>http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2016/10/15/hieroglyphs-proof-real-time-travel/feed/3http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2016/10/15/hieroglyphs-proof-real-time-travel/4 Alleged Bigfoot Sightings (With Videos!) from September 2016http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StrangerDimensions/~3/bo98kHb-ZYw/
http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2016/10/03/4-alleged-bigfoot-sightings-videos-september-2016/#respondMon, 03 Oct 2016 21:10:41 +0000http://www.strangerdimensions.com/?p=22699I’m not sure what to think of Bigfoot. Can a creature – a large number of them, even, around the world – really evade humans in this day and age? How do they stay hidden, and avoid leaving definitive evidence that they exist? Maybe there’s more to these mysterious creatures than we think. Here are a handful ...

]]>I’m not sure what to think of Bigfoot. Can a creature – a large number of them, even, around the world – really evade humans in this day and age? How do they stay hidden, and avoid leaving definitive evidence that they exist? Maybe there’s more to these mysterious creatures than we think.

Here are a handful of Bigfoot sightings from last month that may help us understand.

Is Bigfoot A Paranormal Entity?

Here we have video taken in Alabama, which once again raises the possibility that Bigfoot is more than just any old cryptid. Jonathan Odom, who uploaded the video on September 5, noticed trees in the distance appear to shimmer. His camera then started acting up. “Something was there,” he said, “I just couldn’t see it.”

There are many who believe Bigfoot is a paranormal entity, something ghost-like that can turn invisible, cause electronic disturbances, or otherwise affect the surrounding environment. The shimmering trees, which Odom said looked like heat haze, may have been a sign of this.

A similarly extraordinary claim is that what we call Bigfoot or Sasquatch may in fact be Nephilim, the offspring of angels and humans.

New Hampshire Audio

On September 20, the YouTube channel Sasquatch: Out of the Shadows uploaded this alleged audio evidence of a sasquatch in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Oftentimes, audio like this ends up being coyotes or other animals. I’ll let you decide on this one.

Mysteries In Michigan

Another alleged sighting occurred in Michigan, this one with photographic evidence. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a bear, but the photo itself is interesting. It’s a good example of how ordinary animals may sometimes be confused for, well, something else. Camera angles are important.

U.K.’s Bigfoot

YouTube channel British Bigfoot Research has what they believe may be the first footage of the Woodwose, the United Kingdom’s own Bigfoot-like creature. They shared their video on September 1, though it was captured in July 2016.

It shows what appears to be a “dark figure” moving a tall tree, causing it to swing. They suggest this could be video evidence of one of these creatures building a “tree structure,” which are alleged shelters that have been discovered many times around the world by other Bigfoot researchers.

Another possibility is that the creature may have been swinging the tree as a signal to his fellow creatures that a human was nearby. After years of remaining hidden, perhaps these Bigfoot have developed various techniques to prevent them from being found.